Opinions On Color Change

Yes it would hurt value significantly, not to mention being expensive on its own.

No body shop paint job can match factory. Factory they paint the car using robots before it is assembled and they can bake it to extremely high temperatures. Body shops obviously cannot do this.

There’s literally hundreds of 458 Italia listed for sale in the US. There should be no reason to buy one and immediately repaint it.

 

YES!!!

 

You betcha.

 

That might be a good thing considering the thread on Pista paint issues..........


Jim

 

Agree with the other "don't repaint it" opinions.

Jim

 

To do a proper color change job you would basically have to disassemble the car to get at all the visible areas. Hardly worth it.

 

Would hurt it significantly even if done well. Maybe consider a vinyl wrap instead, though i dont think you can get the same effect with it.

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Insanity.

 

If you don't mind to torpedo your immediate resale value, go for it.

 

Technically you cant change the colour perfectly unless you strip the car 100%. That will still devalue it but even more so if you don't. And to strip the car plus devalue , just buy another car which will save you money and heartache. DONT DO IT

 

Then again, Ferrari changed the color on the Enzo that crashed on the Pacific Coast Highway. It went from red to black and sold for 1.75 million dollars.

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I disagree. While the factory does use robots (and rotary bell spray equipment), plenty of shops can actually do better. In fact, I believe the one off stuff is sent to a special shop to paint.

That said, I don't recommend a color change lightly. The only way to do it properly it to fully disassemble the car. Not inexpensive to say the least.

 

I would agree , I have seen plenty first class sprayers that would be classified better than factory. But as you and I have pointed out the car would need to be stripped to be done perfectly. Every chip would need to be filled. This is an expensive task, which I have gone through before rebuilding a MR2. I saved on cost disassembling and reassembling the car myself but the paint job was about 25 k, twice the value of the car ! All lost money but it was a passion which kept me entertained for 5 years.

 

The no's have it!

 

First thing is to find a painter that is known in the automotive world that paints show cars so when you talk about the paint job by so and so painter, people will understand the level of quality. Second part is can you do most of the disassembly and ship the car to the shop this will save you big time. Let them reassemble and do all the body gaps to show car standards. A one-off professional paint color change will be any where from 25k to 60k depending on how close you want to get to a 100 point paint job could be more if engine needs to come out. This should not be done because you don't like the color, this should be done because you want a unique color for a car you love and understand that you will probably lose value+the cost of the paint process.